Felix Holt: The RadicalWhen the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs becomes apparent. Forthright, brusque and driven by a firm desire to educate the working-class, Felix is at first viewed with suspicion by many, including the elegant but vain Esther Lyon, the daughter of the local clergyman. As she discovers, however, his blunt words conceal both passion and deep integrity. Soon the romantic and over-refined Esther finds herself overwhelmed by a heart-wrenching decision: whether to choose the wealthy Transome as a husband, or the impoverished but honest Felix Holt. |
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... seemed herself to be constructing'. A range of literary paradigms repeatedly intervene, whether in terms of Esther's early dreams of 'gentlemen' and 'ladies' (which in outline bear remarkable parallels to the tales ironically summarized ...
... seemed herself to be constructing'. A range of literary paradigms repeatedly intervene, whether in terms of Esther's early dreams of 'gentlemen' and 'ladies' (which in outline bear remarkable parallels to the tales ironically summarized ...
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... seemed to have come as a last vision to urge her towards the life where the draughts of joy sprang from the unchanging fountains of reverence and devout love.' Esther's 'inward revolution' involves a shift in the range of signifiers by ...
... seemed to have come as a last vision to urge her towards the life where the draughts of joy sprang from the unchanging fountains of reverence and devout love.' Esther's 'inward revolution' involves a shift in the range of signifiers by ...
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... seemed to lift itself with diculty to the coachman. Mail or stage coach for him belonged to that mysterious distant system of things called 'Gover'ment', which, whatever it might be, was no business of his, any more than the most out ...
... seemed to lift itself with diculty to the coachman. Mail or stage coach for him belonged to that mysterious distant system of things called 'Gover'ment', which, whatever it might be, was no business of his, any more than the most out ...
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... fine as any to be seen in Loamshire, there were very few servants about it. Especially, it seemed, there must be a lack of gardeners; for, except on the terrace surrounded with a stone parapet in front of the house, where there was a.
... fine as any to be seen in Loamshire, there were very few servants about it. Especially, it seemed, there must be a lack of gardeners; for, except on the terrace surrounded with a stone parapet in front of the house, where there was a.
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... seemed to fall wearily; the tiny birds alighted on the walks, and hopped about in perfect tranquillity; even a stray rabbit sat nibbling a leaf that was to its liking, in the middle of a grassy space, with an air that seemed quite ...
... seemed to fall wearily; the tiny birds alighted on the walks, and hopped about in perfect tranquillity; even a stray rabbit sat nibbling a leaf that was to its liking, in the middle of a grassy space, with an air that seemed quite ...
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